English Psychological Verb and Optimal L2 Acquisition

• 영문명: English Psychological Verb and Optimal L2 Acquisition
• 발행기관: 한국영어교육연구학회
• 저자명: Seung-chul Moon
• 간행물 정보: 『영어교육연구』제35호, 207~234쪽, 전체 28쪽
• 주제분류: 사회과학 > 교육학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2007.10.30

영문 초록

It has been well known that the English psychological verb is one of the most complicated verb to acquire because of its weird syntactic characteristics. In particular, for L2 learners, it usually takes comparatively longer time to acquire the syntactic behavior of psychological verb with structural complications. The most tricky part of psychological verb is the violation of c-command condition which has been known to be very universally applicable to almost all syntactic phenomenon. In this study, I show that the substantially intricate problem involved in psychological verb construction can be optimally explained through the interactions of the ranked violable universal constraints and can be efficiently acquired by L2 learners by teaching the hierarchy of those violable universal constraints. This study showed that Optimality Theory developed in phonology by Prince & Smolensky (1993) can also be applied to the acquisition of the psychological verb. The special syntactic behavior of psychological verbs has been reported in a number of languages by Giorgi (1984), Pesetsky (1997), Belletti (1986), and Rizzi (2003) among many others. The seemingly intricate complication in psychological verb construction can be explained by the interaction of the ranked violable constraints. The analysis I propose in this paper supports the approach of the violable constraint interaction framed in OT grammar.

목차

I. Introduction

II. The OT Mechanism

III. Unboundedness in Psychological Verb

IV. Constraints for Psychological Verb

V. Acquisition of Constraints and Hierarchies

VI. Conclusion

Works Cited

키워드

Optimality Theory psychological verb constraint hierarchy L2 acquisition OT tableau